joining a domain - easy in XP, not so with kubuntu !

[gasman]

hi

i use a SuSE 10 box running Samba3 as a PDC with roaming profiles for my home LAN which, to date, has consisted of all XP boxes

XP users authenticate to the domain in the normal ctrl-alt-del way much beloved of Our Beloved Leader Unkle Bill and all the the various 'My Documents' folders on the XP clients are all pointed at the appropriate users /home directories on the PDC

this enables a single admin (me!) to be responsible for everyone's backups etc and works OK

so ..... now i have my own machine setup to dual boot XP Pro (which i cannot completely abandon because of some legacy accounting soft - well i might try Win4Lin Pro but dual booting's OK really) and kubuntu 6.06 DD

in kubuntu i can log onto my share on the PDC as it seen as a standard SMB share and i just have to enter the password - works right 'out of the box' which is nice

what i really want to do though is permanently/persistently (whichever is the correct term) map my /home directory on the kubuntu client machine to the appropriate share on the PDC - exactly as i do in XP - preferably without having to log on a second time as i do now

essentially i want 'My Documents' in XP and /home in kubuntu to be the same folder on the PDC

there's loads of stuff out there on Win clients joining Samba/NT domains, but relatively little on joining linux clients

any 'gurus' out there with the answer ?

thanks for all and any help you can give


neill

[alrac]

Re: joining a domain - easy in XP, not so with kubuntu !

Linux doesn't recognize domains the way Windows clients do. If you want a central authenticating mechanism for all your lan clients, you want winbind.

This article gives an overview:
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplane...le.php/3499006

The followup covers integrating with Active Directory, which doesn't help you. But this official Samba doc should:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...n/winbind.html

[jferrando]

Re: joining a domain - easy in XP, not so with kubuntu !

Have you tried mounting a CIFS filesystem in your kubuntu box?

$sudo mount -t cifs //server/data /home/jferrando/server -o credentials=/etc/smbc.jordi,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8

The credentials file contains (/etc/smbc.jordi):
username=jordi
password=xxxx
and is chmod 600 (only root readable). You can also try an init.d script as follows:

root@alcudia:/etc/init.d# cat mount_cifs
#!/bin/sh
#
# mount_cifs - Mounts samba filesystems
# Written by Jordi Ferrando jferrando@netplc.com
# Kubuntu.dapper

MOUNT="/bin/mount"
UMOUNT="/bin/umount"

start() {
echo "Start cifs filesystems..."
mount -t cifs //surera.netplc.com/datos /home/jferrando/csurera -o credentials=/etc/smbc.jordi,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8
#echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
echo "Cifs client mount end"
}

stop() {
echo "Cifs stop ..."
$UMOUNT -l /home/jferrando/csurera
echo "Umounted cifs filesystems"
}

status() {
echo "Cifs file systems ..."
df
}

restart() {
echo "restart ..."
stop
start
}

reload() {
echo "start ..."
stop
start
}

force_reload() {
echo "force-reload ..."
stop
start
}

case $1 in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status
;;
restart)
restart
;;
reload)
reload
;;
force-reload)
force_reload
;;
*)
echo "Usage: mount_cifs {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}"
;;
esac

exit 0

And then enable the auto-start of the script
$ sudo update-rc.d mount_cifs defaults

Anyway, CIFS does not work very well for me (see my last post CIFS woes), and I prefer use FUSE filesystem SSHFS for the time being. I would like to use CIFS, because of FUSE lacks very basic features (file locking), but I only have problems with CIFS, not to mention the UID/GID mappings between the server and the clients. Of course, I can always disable unix extensions = no on my samba server, but then I loose other useful unix extensions.

Sorry for the long reply.